AMD Phenom 9550hd any good for moderate gaming?

[KPD]

Hi,
I just bought a used AMD phenom 9550hd with gigabyte mobo at throw away price. I wanted to know what games I can play with the following specification:-

CPU- Phenom 9550d Quad 2.2
Ram- 2gb DDR2 667mhz
Mobo- Gigabyte (can't recall the specification)
Video- Radeon 6450 1gb

My interest is NFS Shift and Carbon, COD MW3, Assassins Creed 2, Dirt 2 and the likes.

 

[logainofhades]

Not much of anything with that graphics card or cpu. Their is a reason that was selling for a throw away price.

 

[KPD]

Not much of anything with that graphics card or cpu. Their is a reason that was selling for a throw away price.

Okay, I get your point. But the reason it was bought was not exclusively for gaming, it was bought keeping in mind basic usage such as ms office, internet and movies.

I just wanted to know if I can play those games listed on any settings. Trying to get some more from that cpu.

Thanks

 

[logainofhades]

It will do OK in basic tasks and watching movies and much older games. Newer games, however, a big no. A better GPU might help, but Phenom I's were quite a failure and actually slower than Athlon 64 x2's. Kinda like Faildozer with regards to Phenom II.

 

[perzy]

The CPU is not so bad, nowdays game engines can use multicores way better and my 2,3 Ghz 9500 (OC'd) outperforms my previous 2,8 Ghz Athlon X2. The RAM should be 800 Mhz for that CPU thou, and your graphics card is really slow. With a decent graphics card I think you can run those games using lower resolutions like 1024-1280.

 

[lazyboy947]

The cpu should fine if the game can utilize cores decently, I ran bf3 on low with a 9650 stock and a 9800gt 1gb at 1080p

 

[KPD]

Thanks all. What should be a decent graphic for this cpu? I would like to spend on something that I can retain once I wish to upgrade my CPU.

I was running NFS shift very comfortably on medium resolution with 2 AA. However today it crashes with the following error.

I tried running on default settings it still crashes. I reinstalled Physx but it did not help. It crashes just before the start of race.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: shift.exe
Application Version: 1.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4a953d01
Fault Module Name: shift.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 4a953d01
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00432103
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 16393
Additional Information 1: c235
Additional Information 2: c235af0f6fc4773be27f287cda2d3aa1
Additional Information 3: 43aa
Additional Information 4: 43aa9030436b4eaeb7503315cd40f985

 

[perzy]

What graphics card to get depends on what you want to spend, a real good one will last you longer, although the phenom cpu will bottleneck it. I guess a X7XX or a X8XX Radeon is preferably matched with the CPU, while a X9XX radeon is bottlenecked. Geforce ?